Monday, December 2, 2013

What's happening?

1.  Essay groups.... Meet with me if you have questions... If not, go finish essays! 

2.  Food groups...  E-mail me your timeline, and for our next class, write club rules and regulations.

Get out of here and finish your work!


Meetings.  We'll have meetings on the day of our final exams... The final exam schedule is here.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving

1.

 I wasn't able to complete all of the revision grading.  I'll have all essays ready for Monday.

2. 

If you like and you need help, please wait and I'll be able to chat with you about whatever you need after the PC pantry group returns..

3. 

The PC Pantry group is accompanying me to see a possible location for our pantry.  We'll be back soon.

4. 

If you don't need anything from me, Happy Thanksgiving!  Go home and finish your final essay and organize all your work into sections so I can look at all you've done on our final meeting day.  Happy Thanksgiving!

5.  If you are a member of the PC pantry group, please create an action plan and timeline for what we need to do to open our pantry.  Remember, priority # one is incorporating as a club, and we'd like to submit the application next week.


Monday, November 25, 2013

First, announcements:

Our Honors "Adopt a Refugee Family"
The Honors Program is again participating in PC's "Adopt a Refugee Family" project. We have now been matched with our family! They are from Iraq and have been in the U.S. for less than two months. 

If you would like to help out in the gathering of items, please use the individual family member information below as your guide. Household and family items are also more than welcomed. You may buy new or may find some gently used items in your closets and cupboards.

Please bring all items to the Honors office bagged or wrapped and labeled to the individual family member or to the family as a whole. Last day to bring itmes in is Thursday, Dec. 12. 

Alaa Ankoosh, father, age 40, shirt = 15 ½, pants = 34/30, shoes 7 ½

Arim Alakam, mother, 35, shirt = 12, pants = 2, shoes = 5 (tops must be long sleeves)

Afnan Ankoosh, daughter, 11, shirt = 12, pants = 2, shoes = 5 (needs a backpack)

Yousif Ankoosh, son, 2, shirt = 2, pants = 2, shoes = 6

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Writing Group:

Final Project Drafting time... Use each other and finish a draft, or at least a plan.  Also, revise and edit essays...

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Food Group-

Lists of questions and concerns... Plans going forward... what we do know... Commitments....Constitution.... Applying for club status.

Going forward...

We're finishing essays for Stars and completing final projects, organizing the club.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Let's follow the same pattern-  Look at the art below...
What are your first impressions?  What is it a picture of?  What techniques is the artist employing?  What does it mean?  How can it be related to competition...


Guernica



From Redacted by Ahmed Alsoudani:




Massacre of the Innocents




Diego Rivera


Moses

 

The Scream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
             

Chris Burden

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

0. Adopt a Family.

1.  HW review-  What's the context for the photos?

2.  Possible outline of photo essay-

3.  Review of writing and essays...

4.  Home to work!

Monday, November 4, 2013

Competition seminar #2

Before we start-- where are we?

What's a portfolio?

What's in it?

All work from class including...

1. Research Essay.
2. Poem Essay.
3. Photography essay.
4. Art essay.


Art Critique-  In class research...

Elements of Style... What are they?



Please look at the photographs and respond by integrating the picture into the idea of competition.

Let's start with an easy one....









And then this one...




And this one...





A few more....



This one




And this one...


 


HW:  Locate context for each of the above photos... What's the story?

HW-  Write a response in which you thematically, artistically, or topically link three of the photographs to the theme of competition by finding commonalities within the photos you choose.

HW-  Don't forget to finish research essays and complete your poem essay...